Overview
Schedule
Registration Fees
 

Miami Beach Botanical Gardens
2000 Convention Center Drive, Miami, FL
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
12:00noon – 6:30pm
11:30 a.m.
Registration Opens; Participant Meet and Greet
Noon - 1:45 p.m.

THE FIRST FLORIDA EQUAL VOICE
Women for Women Forum: Where the Public and Private Sectors Intersect

Luncheon Speakers Include:
Dr. Donna Shalala, President, University of Miami

With women as only 16 percent of Congress and 9 of  50 governors, with only 5 women representing Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives, and with women at 23% of the state legislature, Florida ranks 21st in the nation in women's representation. Therefore, Florida's women in business are joining together to bring more women’s voices to the legislative table!

This nonpartisan "Women for Women Forum" provides a venue for local women leaders in business and the public sector to develop mutual support and discuss issues of importance to their businesses and families. Come share YOUR ideas with women leaders.

EQUAL VOICE is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization educating about what women bring to public office and why their voices are critical to the health, safety, and prosperity of our families and our nation.
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.

The DNA of Leadership: Shape Your  Company's DNA for Increased Profits, Engagement & Productivity

Judith E. Glaser, CEO, Benchmark Communications, Inc.

Just as your DNA may determine your destiny, so can a company's organizational DNA may determine its. This session will help you shape your company's genetic code for success. Learn seven vital leadership practices that can reshape an organization into a WE-centric culture; one which enables people to effectively work together during times of organizational change. "Graft" these seven practices onto meetings, conversations, and strategic initiatives, and you can leverage talent, maximize results, and boost profits in amazing ways.
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Leadership & The Sexes

Barbara Annis, President, Barbara Annis & Associates, Inc.

In this highly engaging and interactive session, Barbara will guide you through some of the most pressing challenges and opportunities to create breakthroughs in your leadership.   She will take you through some of the brain based gender differences  that impacts leadership, and how to avoid some the most common pitfalls women leaders experience.     This session will equip you with insights and tools that will accelerate your achievements and build your leadership practice.

Her book, Same Words, Different Language, now available in 20 countries, provides the groundbreaking insights and the tools for creating powerful win-win relationships between the genders and ways you can break through the latest gender barriers. Some of the tools Annis uses to teach us how to better understand the other gender include: recognizing how our words and actions impact on others; fine-tuning our listening so we really hear what the other gender is saying; making convincing arguments, interact in a way that you increase your credibility and power.

Her new book, Leadership & The Sexes  published by John Wiley in 2008; will reveal the latest brain based research on gender differences in leadership and how to maximize the innate talents of both genders in the workplace and in the world.

4:00 - 4:15 p.m.
Networking Break
4:15 – 5:30 p.m.

Women on Board: Board Governance as the Next Step

Julie Daum, Practice Leader, North American Board Services, Spencer Stuart
Judith E. Glasser, CEO & President, Benchmark Communications
Ann S. Lieff, Director at Hastings Entertainment, Herzfeld Caribbean
Basin Fund and Birks & Mayors Inc.
Additional Panelists TBD

Board director service takes more time and carries more risk than in the past, and directors frequently express concern that they seem to spend more time than before on compliance issues and less on strategic concerns. Nevertheless, the right board opportunities continue to be appealing.

According to a recent Spencer Stuart survey, boardroom composition is beginning to look different.  There is much greater diversity - but Board membership is still not as diverse as boards would like. Close to 16% of all independent directors in the S&P 500 companies are women, versus 12% in 2002. There are more first-time directors and nearly one-third of all new directors are serving on an outside public company board for the first time. This panel will address the ways you can prepare yourself to be considered for a corporate board membership as well as what to expect if you are one of a few (or even the first) women on the Board.
5:30 - 6:30 p.m.

Networking Reception

Summit participants, TWC National Advisory Board and Regional Planning Council members & TWC speakers.

The networking reception will feature Ja-Naé Duane, an international opera singer and entrepreneur.
   
 

The LEADER Summit is part of The Women’s Congress group of properties
designed for professional women across industries, disciplines, careers, levels and cultures.

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